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KIOSK: LAUNCH PARTY, 5pm
Come celebrate the web launch of Kiosk, the first stand-alone publication of the Literary Journalism program that recognizes the best student writing from the classroom and beyond. Free snacks and live music!
UCI Bookstore lo...

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This week's episode of OC Housewives is all about the children. And oh what a bunch of mentally disturbed offspring they are indeed. But you know what they say, like mother like . . . you get the point.
It starts out with Lauri and her youngest daug...

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Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has some great ideas (anti-imperialism) and some stupid ones (deny amnesty and birthright citizenship to illegal immigrants), and it's this schizophrenic platform that has attracted sane folks (the editors o...

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Speaking of Carona. . . What part of "leave of absence" doesn't His Indictedness understand? Carona agreed to step down on Nov. 6. Now, the Register notes that he was spotted -in full uniform no less- at a graduation ceremony on Nov. 15 at Rio Hondo ...

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KFI finally uploaded our Mexican's 11/30 show in three parts: "Assimilation debate," "Illegals and crime" and "Ask a Mexican."
Leave it to KFI to label the first two segments in such a way. Don't be fooled, Gustavo talks about way more than that an...

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Recent news that Archdiocese of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony claims he was assaulted by someone angry with his treatment of sex-abuse survivors brings back memories of my own obnoxious attack on His Eminence over the rapes of innocents. It was i...

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For another reason why this paper has been historically softer on the Reverend Robert Schuller than on Orange County's other wacky Christians (though read this article for proof we're not that soft), look no further than the announcement that Schulle...

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-- improper because such funds aren't allowed for county candidates, reports Martin Wisckol at the Reg.
It's raining war cash: Ceradyne Inc., which manufactures ceramic body armor out of Costa Mesa, has won a $107-million contract from the Army for...

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SYMPHONIC BAND CONCERT, 7:30pm
Music to be performed will include traditional and contemporary wind band literature.
Golden West College, 15744 Golden West St., Huntington Beach, (714) 895-8150
CHAPMAN JAZZ COMBOS AND BIG BAND, 8pm
Jazz enthusiasts ...

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It was hard to top last year's party on that beautiful boat in Newport, but this Saturday the OC Weekly Holiday Party & Fashion Show hit an all-time high with one of the best parties of the holiday season (if I do say so myself).
Britney Spears may...

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If you're wondering how a book about a little girl hanging out with an armored polar bear can have so many religious conservatives scared, you're probably not alone. With THE GOLDEN COMPASS having screened in a nationwide sneak on Saturday, many may ...

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Dearest brethren and sisters of the Internet, God's children all:
Let us all join our hands in prayer and thank the Lord for both the Orange County Weekly and Wiley Drake, the Buena Park-based, homeless-person-feeding, gay-bashing, Southern Baptist ...

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On its website, the California Department of Motor Vehicles warns all prospective vanity license plate holders that it "has the right to refuse any combination of letters and/or letters and numbers that may carry connotations offensive to good taste ...

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Flying (and crashing) solo: An OC sheriff's deputy crashed his cruiser into a tree on an on-ramp to the I-405 in Seal Beach early this morning. The Register reports that the deputy was not responding to a call at the time of the accident, and no othe...

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The most common question I received all weekend, after I appeared on KFI-AM 640 to ply my Ask a Mexican! spiel: How the hell did I smuggle myself onto the KFI airwaves? Tequila? Are they sponsoring my citizenship? Tamales?
Chalk it up to luck, idio...

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UC Irvine brought Erwin Chemerinsky to Orange County in June 2008, so it's not strange that his favorite thing about the county is The University that now employs him. Even so, the dean of UCI's brand-new law school says the university has impressed ...

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As the longtime director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino and a former NYPD officer and legal counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Brian Levin has dedicated his professional career to fighting cri...